Please pray for people of Sardinia, a strong storm kills 17 people in Sardinia.
"It's a national tragedy , a tragedy of incredible proportions . In 24 hours it has rained a body of water that is half of which usually falls in a whole year . " He described the head of the Italian Government, Enrico Letta , violence Cleopatra cyclone during late Monday and early Tuesday has beaten the island of Sardinia , leaving by the time a balance of 17 dead and undetermined number of missing.
The area most affected by the rains and strong winds is the north of the island , especially the province of Olbia , where floods and overflowing rivers have killed 13 people , three men and a woman with her daughter after the collapse of a bridge in Monte Pine and four Brazilians , the father , mother and two sons aged 16 and 20 years old, to flood the basement where they lived in the town of Arzachena. Two more people have died in Nuoro and Oristano other , plus a three year old boy who had disappeared on Monday night with his uncle in the town of Putzolu , at the gates of Olbia.
Hundreds of people have been evicted from their homes due to flooding and dozens of villages are isolated by power outages and roads are impassable . The Italian Civil Protection Director , Franco Gabrielli arrived this morning to coordinate aid Sardinia and Rome will be a meeting of the council of ministers to declare a state of emergency.
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